Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 10/2024 from the Finnish Game Industry and will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out the previous post here.
News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 8th March Game Audio Awards gala 2024 / Oulu
- March 8, 2024 special International Women’s Day breakfast and panel discussion on at the Next Games offices / physical event is sold out but you can sign up for online event
- March 14th DGC Recruitment / Internship – Jamk Game Degree Edition at Digi & Game Center, Jyväskylä
- March 18-19 Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco / Discount code: PlayFinlandSF20 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/pocket-gamer-connects…
- 18-22 March Game Developers Conference / San Francisco
- 16th April Get Funded! event by Neogames Finland
- Digital Dragons 19-21 May 2024. Indie Showcase applications are accepted until March 1, 2024. Another opportunity for studios to show their games in front of investors, publishers, and media is Digital Dragons Arena. Krakow, Poland
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Big News:
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- In these uncertain times, many talented professionals are being affected by layoffs. If you find yourself in this situation, Games Factory Talents connecting Passion & Talent want to share with you a their session recording from the Autumn #gamesjobfair. Using LinkedIn to find your next career opportunity. The importance of having a strong profile that catches recruiters’ attention is essential.
Unfortunately, many candidates miss essential elements that can decrease their chances of being called for an interview.
Watch Oleg Paliy’s session recording to learn how to “pimp up” your profile and increase your chances of landing your next career opportunity. Let’s make the most of the tools available to us in these challenging times.
Join Games Factory Talents connecting Passion & Talent at the upcoming Spring #GamesJobFair this April - If you are a Facebook user and looking for jobs in gaming in Finland, make sure to follow Pelialan työpaikat Suomessa Facebook group hosted by Finnish employment agency Duunitori. Open positions tagged to game industry are shared in the group automatically. We are in no way affiliated with Duunitori, but wanted to point out this resource as another good way to check out open positions.
- If you are looking for talented games industry professionals for short- or long-term hire – please check out the anonymous GameDevTalents board with screened and pre-interviewed talents ranging from mid to senior levels of experience and open to career opportunities. Feel free to reach out for details! And if you are Talent working in games industry or willing to join the Finnish games industry, feel free to apply https://gamedevtalents.com. Additionally, here is an anonymous list of talents who joined our Games Job Fair event and are open to career opportunities. If you want to see someone’s full profile, please feel free to reach out with the Contact button, so that they reach out to the talent for their consent. In your email please specify the project and/or position you are hiring for. A job description would be ideal.
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
- Uratarinoita, erilaisista ihmisistä / mostly in Finnish, but few different career stories in English too
💰 Funding:
- DigiDemo application time has started and ends on 5th April 2024 at 16:00. For more information on the concept support application process, please contact Media Art Commisioner Milla Moilanen during the call hours on 5 March and 12 March at 9:00–12:00.
- IGDA Finland Grant apply time March 1st – May 31st. Full details in www.igda.fi/grant.
Other News
- Passion and Pitfalls of Game Entrepreneurship in Finland. Great analyze about the topic by Suvi Kiviniemi
- SuomiGameHUB wrote an article (in Finnish) about the game of Smart Blob Studio’s “New rule: The game is…”
- Ata Verti’s Probably Tuesday and Led It Rain are shooting into limelight
- #GenerativeAI in game development is discussed on Finnish YLE’s Swedish language culture news, local industry veteran Simon Ådahl comments. Story in Swedish.
- Solip’s Comic episode is for those game expats came to Finland with their family.
- SuomiGameHUB wrote an article (in Finnish) about Dextrous Games’ game “Technocide”
